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Show NIGHT. Night on the sea; night on the barren coast. Immense, unfeatur'd. torn with the angry an-gry war Of wind and waves; beyond the surf-hid bar. The ocean "nettling to the uttermost. Through mist of swirling spindrift. Inland tossed. Half-blind we gaze as seaward snd afar. Where the black storm scud parts, a 'single star Gleams on a helmlesa ship, and then is lost. A signal gun sound out above the roar; The sobbing echo of its passionate plea 1 In human hearts reverberates, smites the shore , Again the death shriek's hopeless agony-. Rives the sheet heavens. Naught further save, once more, The sullen boom of the Insatiate sea, BESSIE GRAT. . |